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Kyle Walker Sold £50m

Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by "Thanks for that Brian", Jul 13, 2017.

  1. littleDinosaurLuke

    littleDinosaurLuke Well-Known Member

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    The reality is that he's closer to home (he's a Sheffield lad) and he's earning more money.
    Whatever job you're in, those factors are appealing.
     
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  2. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Oh look, another Pochettino dig by Spurcat.

    So should Walker have been pissed off when he was "dropped" for every other FA Cup game in favour of Trippier?

    Pochettino is currently about to begin giving us his fourth year of service, yet you constantly choose to slag him off at every opportunity for ridiculous reasons and then say Walker deserves better from us because up until a couple of days ago, no club better than Spurs, or let me rephrase, no club with more money than Spurs came calling for him over the past 8 years? Come off it. He stayed here because he wouldn't have had it better elsewhere. He hasn't left for footballing reasons, he's left for greed and that will never sit right with me.
     
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  3. humanbeingincroydon

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  4. remembercolinlee

    remembercolinlee Well-Known Member

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    Like I said I am not critising Walker.
    I don't think he left for money reasons.
    I wish he hadn't left and I do not like that he has gone to a rival as it strengthens them and weakens us.
    I think there was a break down in his relationship with Pochettino.
    My point was a general one re money and extremely rich footballers.

    Media and fans defend them "earning what they can as their career is short" and say things like "you would quit a job to work else where if you were offered more money".
    I get they can make money and should but there seriously has to be a point where it is nothing more than sheer greed.
    Ronney demanded a transfer a few years back but after a wage rise to over £1m per month stayed...Rooney was one of the highest paid footballers in the premier league at the time and was richer than God when his endorsements were added in. What he did was epitomised the "greed is good" mantra favoured by the rich in the 1980s.
    I qualified for a season ticket as did my kids ... would have cost a total of over £1600 for me, my 19 year old and my 14 yr old in thr cheapest seats so was an obvious no go.
    Thats 7 weeks take home pay for me.
    Lower wages could lessen ticket prices so it directly affects us.
    I aint digging at anyone on here but in my view wages are a joke in football. When we are considered tight for "only " paying key players £70k - £100k per week the world is mad
     
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  5. Should have chosen Huddersfield........<laugh>
     
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  6. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    There's two trains an hour between Sheffield and Doncaster.

    ...remind me to find one of my uni housemates and give them ****, as they were adamant the bus was a better option.
     
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  7. Huddersfield is a mile closer on Google maps!!
     
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  8. Diego

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    Ever thought he might have moved for football reasons, as in to join a club that has won the PL 3 times recently and have been consistently in the CL for the last 5 years or so?
    The better wage and nearer to home might have just been nice bonuses.
     
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  9. littleDinosaurLuke

    littleDinosaurLuke Well-Known Member

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    3 times?
    Are you including 1968 or have you had some Armageddon like prediction of the future?
     
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  10. Diego

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    Oooops, wasn't supposed to let that out :emoticon-0107-sweat
     
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  11. Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane Danny Rosebud

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    I have a lot of sympathy for Kyle and the way he felt after the semis. For him to get the hump over it as badly as he did shows just how much he cares(d) for the club and how desperately he wanted to help us towards silverware.

    HOWEVER, in no way should a single game be allowed to undo 3 entire seasons of clearly gaining from your manager. Wenger played David feckin Ospina in every CL group game and stuck by him for the crunch game against Bayern; and did we see Cech kicking off about that? No, and that is in a position where you really don't need to rotate. Trippier played very well throughout the FAC and was rewarded as such with a place in the semis. To have dropped him for Kyle would've been an even bigger slap in the face than the one Kyle supposedly felt.

    As most of us pointed out at the time, playing Son at LWB was the gaffe that cost us the match, not sticking with Trippier.

    So as I've said, whilst most will agree that Trippier is an inferior player, for Kyle to have allowed the semi final to bother him that much that he wanted out is just wrong to the point of being childish, and hints at a pretty poor memory of the village idiot he used to be before the manager he is so angry at started coaching him.
     
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  12. lennypops

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    It's easy for us to say "What difference does double your wages make when you're that rich?" but then again 95% of the world could probably say that about practically everyone here on this board. We probably all earn more than the vast, vast majority of people in the world and our concerns about how our telly isn't that great or we can't afford many foreign holidays or our car "needs" replacing are just as laughable to many of them as the pitfalls of "only" earning 70k a week are to us.

    Once you're crazy rich you start wondering about maybe hiring a private jet rather than pissing about with first class tickets at the airport in just the same way that people of our ilk might fancy getting cabs more when we can afford it rather than getting the bus.

    Of course it's all diminishing returns but doubling your wages, no matter where you're starting from, will have an impact on your life. I know it sounds silly and I'm not approving of it but there is a difference between being crazy rich and being twice as crazy rich.

    It is, of course, massively **** that players are paid such obscene amounts ( and yes - they could be set up for life with far lower wages) whilst fans have to keep paying more and more to see games but that is such a complicated kettle fish and definitely has no easy answers.
     
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  13. Blue and White

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    These discussions seem to come up now most years and I will add my penny's worth simply because I can't afford more than that.

    I agree RCL.

    I will be lucky to earn £1mill in my lifetime so when these footballers earn it in a few weeks it makes me mad.
    So as you say , when there are comments that they have a short career I say ****. If their career was one season they would have made more than I will in my life and nothing is stopping them from learning a new career after. Let them become P. E. teachers.
     
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    <applause>
     
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  15. Billy The Spur

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    We are now a long term injury to Trippier away from having just a rookie as a specialist right back, surely we will sign a quality replacement for Walker.
     
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  16. Spurf

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    I dislike greed but as lenny points out it's relative. As you increase your income it's always surprising how quickly you get used to it and accept it as the norm. I have pursued comfort rather than riches in my life always setting a limit on what I am prepared to do just for money. As crazy as it seems people earning ridiculous sums like 70,000 a week will also get used to this and if they are money motivated, which probably at least half of humans are, they will be attracted by the prospect of getting more of it. Phrases like crime doesn't pay and cheats never prosper, are bandied about, or they were when I was growing up, they're not true of course, sadly fairness does not come into how the world works. Exploit or be exploited is nearer the mark. Being comfortable and fair in your dealings is a luxury only those of us in wealthy countries can indulge.
     
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  17. Blue and White

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    I guess what is needed is some kind of cap on wages otherwise football will just get more and more dominated by the few. But with a corrupt leadership what are the chances?
    Also a cap on transfers. Say maximum of three per window for each club to buy in.Promote players from your academy.
     
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    remembercolinlee Well-Known Member

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    I would give clubs a maximum amount to spend on transfers and on players wages.
    So you could pay a player £400k per week but it would cause problems for you to pay others massive salaries.
    The same goes for transfers. If clubs could spend no more than £100m a season then certain clubs could not simply buy who ever they want and would have to actually coach players to improve them.
     
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  19. Citizen Kane

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    I think the MLS has a system somewhat along these lines that makes it almost impossible for a club (or 'franchise') to go bust. It is also a safeguard against the reality that teams from the coasts (specifically New York and California based teams) are likely to be far wealthier than teams from hicksville.

    Having said that though, I'm not too sure how LA Galaxy are able to afford an endless list of European mega-names in their west-coast retirement homes. @redwhiteandermblue can you elaborate?
     
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  20. Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane Danny Rosebud

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    100%

    Imagine a similar scenario we had with Rose last season, only without a player of Davies' calibre to step up to the plate. Nightmare.
     
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